RSA’s Hester Hires Second Zurich Executive for U.K. Unit

Steve Lewis, chief executive officer of Zurich’s general
insurance business in the U.K., will replace Adrian Brown, CEO
of RSA’s U.K. and western Europe operation, who resigned in
March, said the people, who asked not to be identified because
they weren’t authorized to speak publicly.

Lewis, 45, resigned today after 26 years with Zurich, Alex
Jones, a spokesman for the company in London, said by telephone.
An RSA spokeswoman declined to comment on the appointment. Lewis
didn’t immediately return a call to his office at Zurich.

Lewis will be the second Zurich executive to join RSA since
former Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc CEO Stephen Hester took
over in February. In March, Hester hired Ken Norgrove, the
former CEO of Zurich General Insurance Ireland, to head up the
Irish unit, which had been hit by an accounting scandal.

Brown, who had run RSA’s U.K. and Western European business
since 2008, is leaving to become chairman of underwriting and
distribution at U.S. broker Arthur J. Gallagher (AJG) & Co.